Bluewhite

09:54

01/18/2018

Grayson Hugh

Story

(Originating from a poem of the same title, "Bluewhite" definitely has a cinematic quality to it. The words, along with the evocative music, take the listener on a journey through those "small stick towns" of Connecticut, where the mills have long since shut down, through woods of birch, maple, oak and sycamore, past falling-down barns, fields and stone walls, pausing to look across a valley from one hill to another "where the snow in the shell of the afternoon is a cold bluewhite". One is reminded of the Winter scenes in the paintings such as "The Hunters In The Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The "bluewhite" effect happens when long shadows cast by trees fall on the freshly fallen snow. The best time to see this is when the sun comes out after a good nor-easter storm, from 11 am to 3 pm at the latest in January and February. It's a distinctly Connecticut thing, where there are an abundance of small hills and valleys.)